TomTom: Don't Blame Apple Maps Problems On Us!http://www.businessinsider.com/tomtom-apple-maps-2012-9/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:50:32 -0500Jay Yarowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/506a1a4d69beddb42100000dMark RainMon, 01 Oct 2012 18:33:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/506a1a4d69beddb42100000d
Jay, don't you ever tire of smart-assed, snap reaction, uneducated responses from people who take offense to your differing opinion because they have obvious emotional biases to the topic matter (Apple fanboy)?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50613021ecad041e70000041DarrylTue, 25 Sep 2012 00:16:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50613021ecad041e70000041
i had a tomtom go 630 and from new the screen on it would jump back and forth to other screens to the point of i could not use it. google problems with tomtom and you will see what i mean. i'm not saying that tomtom is the problem with tha apple maps and their data my be fine, but thier devices are junk.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505f8a60eab8eaf309000017Michael LabusSun, 23 Sep 2012 18:17:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505f8a60eab8eaf309000017
I guess you meant Bin Laden not Bin Larden. Anyway, you need to get a different tv too, cause he's been dead awhile.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505ed54becad04ea0900000bVasManSun, 23 Sep 2012 05:24:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505ed54becad04ea0900000b
TomTom must be joking, about the good reviews they get and how good and accurate their maps are. This useless company does not even know basic geography and I can prove it with a very simple example: The TomTom Europe iPhone App does not have Greece or Cyprus maps in the Europe App version, they do include however other smaller countries like Albania for example in the Europe version. What they do though is to force you to buy a separate TomTom App named TomTom Greece, in this Greek App version they also include Cyprus!!!
So explain me this shitty TomTom why should I buy two Apps to navigate (e.g. Italy-Greece) around Europe? Who told you that Cyprus is Greece? Yes we share history and similar language but these are different countries moronshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e287969bedd997b000003zatoGibsonSat, 22 Sep 2012 17:07:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e287969bedd997b000003
"Jay, Don't you ever tire of posting crappy stories"
Jay is just doing what every good TECH reporter does - find a story that will bring in the Apple-hating Microsoft gamer creeps. This is where the money (clicks) is in TECH reporting.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e0bbdeab8eabf6500000dfoljsSat, 22 Sep 2012 15:04:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e0bbdeab8eabf6500000d
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When Apple launched the original iPhone, one of the biggest complaints about the phone was that it was awful for making phone calls. Apple did not bear the brunt of this criticism, though. It was its cellular partner AT&T who was, and continues to be, trashed for bad performance.
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And rightly so. Lab tests had shown the iPhone had excellent reception. And even the iPhone 4, that suffered from the "antenna problem" dropped 4 times as many calls in AT&T than in Verizon:
"""According to a March study by ChangeWave Research, AT&T is the reason the iPhone drops calls. Users of the Verizon iPhone 4 reported a 1.8% dropped-call rate, the same rate as users of other Verizon phones. Users of the AT&T iPhone 4 reported a 4.8% dropped-call rate, 2.7 times the rate of Verizon iPhone users.
AT&T has been touting network improvements since at least last summer, no doubt over concerns that Verizon would get the iPhone. The ChangeWave survey was last month. Just imagine what AT&T's dropped-call rate was before its network improvements! """
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When Apple launched the original iPhone, one of the biggest complaints about the phone was that it was awful for making phone calls. Apple did not bear the brunt of this criticism, though. It was its cellular partner AT&T who was, and continues to be, trashed for bad performance.
And rightly so. Lab tests had shown the iPhone had excellent reception. And even the iPhone 4, that suffered from the "antenna problem" dropped 4 times as many calls in AT&T than in Verizon:
"""According to a March study by ChangeWave Research, AT&T is the reason the iPhone drops calls. Users of the Verizon iPhone 4 reported a 1.8% dropped-call rate, the same rate as users of other Verizon phones. Users of the AT&T iPhone 4 reported a 4.8% dropped-call rate, 2.7 times the rate of Verizon iPhone users.
AT&T has been touting network improvements since at least last summer, no doubt over concerns that Verizon would get the iPhone. The ChangeWave survey was last month. Just imagine what AT&T's dropped-call rate was before its network improvements! """http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e0668eab8eabd60000007Stephen CSat, 22 Sep 2012 14:41:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505e0668eab8eabd60000007
"Consistently high consumer ratings in the App Store"
I don't think so! Have they read the consumer reviews?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dd85a69bedd293a000014exTomTomSat, 22 Sep 2012 11:25:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dd85a69bedd293a000014
Customer (Andrew M.)
20/02/2008 05.08 PM
Well, this is not a question, more of a statement because i really can't be arsed to have to right a letter to the wankers who actually control Tom Tom.
My apologies to the person who has to read this first, but I would be grateful if you could pass it on to one of the cock sucking ladyboys who actually have a say how Tom Tom operates.
Owning your device for 2 and a half months has been one of the worst experiences I have ever had. Your so called latest groundbreaking sat nav device has more bugs in it than my dead granny. While the basic satnav works, all the bells and whistles are flakier than the HIV scabs on a shirtlifters arsehole. But that is not what has really pissed me off, what has is your approach to your customers who have the problems. I spent £350 on your shitty sat nav and your twatty traffic updates, and for all the problems I had all I got was a cold shoulder in the form of retarded automated responses and a tough shit weve got your money attitude.
I'm pleased to say that i have managed to sell your device to some other poor cunt at the loss of £150 to me, but I feel really good about it. So instead of waiting for you arrogant pricks to try and help or compensate me for the shit you've managed to blow out your own fan, i'm taking great satisfaction in writing reviews of your product on every web site I can find reflecting my experience. If i stop just a few people from buying your product that will be redemption enough for the money i have lost.
I bought a Garmin a few days back and fuck me, do you know I set it up with the same mobile phone from your compatibility list and it's taken every call, every text, updated the phone book perfectly, provided useful traffic info, not lost it's settings, switched off unexpectedly or lost data, and all this without crashing or fucking up once! I bet you'd give you're right bollock or piss flap to have a device like that wouldn't you! And who wants buddies or live map updates. Finding out where my mate was 3 days ago or receiving a text the day after it was sent ain't exactly leading edge shit is it. And as for the speech recognition, I might as well get my fucking cat to meow the address into it, its so pathetic! If I was you I'd sell a few of these devices to Afghanistan, then a least Bin Larden won't be able to find any of us.
So, that's me signing off on Tom Tom, it's been about as pleasurable as having Hannibal Lector nibbling at my balls after gargling on Tobasco sauce! And to the first person who drops on this, apologies for the foul language and stuff, and i hope maybe you smiled a little, god only knows when the last time might have working for Tom Tom.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dcfd7ecad044d11000006WigFowSat, 22 Sep 2012 10:48:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dcfd7ecad044d11000006
lol yeah time to pass the buck lol.
www.AnonFolks.tkhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dc6ec6bb3f78041000001locationarySat, 22 Sep 2012 10:10:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505dc6ec6bb3f78041000001
"Apple isn't relying strictly on TomTom data. Apple's maps list two dozen partners, which means it blending TomTom data with other data and its own proprietary data. Somewhere in that blending process mistakes could happen."
Merging place / business data from different sources is hard. Locationary built a platform specifically to do just that: saturn.locationary.comhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cda37eab8eabb62000004Dean AbbeFri, 21 Sep 2012 17:20:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cda37eab8eabb62000004
From "It just works" to "It just sucks".
Let's wait for the iOS version of Google Maps, and pressure Apple to allow us to change the default maps app.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cca04ecad043b24000003jsreillyFri, 21 Sep 2012 16:11:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cca04ecad043b24000003
Hey now, it isn't that the customers are holding their phones wrong, which was totally their fault, it is that the Earth just isn't built right. If it would get off it's lazy butt and simply rebuild roads, flatten the Eiffel tower into a 2d shape, and move major land masses around, then everything would be fine. We all know Apple is innovative and flawless, so the problem MUST be with the Earth. I've already asked Siri why the Earth sucks so much. So far no reply back. I'm sure it will come though, Siri works perfectly too...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cc6236bb3f73059000007Tom TomorrowFri, 21 Sep 2012 15:55:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cc6236bb3f73059000007
TomTom had a congenital idiot for a CTO until not so long ago, but they fixed the glitch.
The TomTom iPhone app is indeed quite usable, although the UI was designed by some demented committee. But the directions are reasonably sane, some screwups, but nothing you'd post on a tumblr site. It's the power hog from hell, sometimes its power consumption exceeds the car-charger rate!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cbe326bb3f7c04b000008PareFri, 21 Sep 2012 15:21:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cbe326bb3f7c04b000008
iOS6: "Take a whole new turn" ...literally :)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cbc8d69bedd112000001bDustinFri, 21 Sep 2012 15:14:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cbc8d69bedd112000001b
Of course, because iPhone owners by and large are uneducated in the smart phone space. This isn't a knock against them, they just don't research their phones.
Apple may be the #1 company in the world for taking every ounce of credit they possibly can and dishing off blame the second anything goes wrong.
Bad at calls, service provider. Screens that shatter, Sharp makes our screens. Maps is crappy, TomTom gave us the data.
I'd love the most arrogant company in the world to step off their high horse and say, "Yes we outsource 99% of everything that goes into our phones but we attach our name to and are responsible for the final product. One, by the way, in which has the highest margins of any consumer electronic on the planet."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb86e69bedd981c000002AtiFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:56:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb86e69bedd981c000002
Wonder what would have happens if apple put out a statement blaming Tom Tom or saying that the map itself is good.
After telling the customers to hold their phone right (lol) apple does get away with allot of crap.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb74469bedd5411000026nerdbertFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:51:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb74469bedd5411000026
I've had a TomTom device for years and a Garmin. No problem with either, and in fact the TomTom sends me off on fewer creative paths. I seriously doubt that TomTom is the issue since it seems that TomTom can at least use their own map data.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb43feab8eac208000007VeronicaFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:38:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb43feab8eac208000007
Two people I know, non-techies, are using iOS 6. They are both getting wrong directions. What they both said to me was that they can't believe I used to rave about Google maps with navigation because their maps are terrible. From this I learned 2 things. Some people are stupid enough to believe they are still using Google maps. Normal people are going to blame Google.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb4216bb3f7c039000001hammermanFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:38:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb4216bb3f7c039000001
dude it's an iphone...it's for kids and tech illiterate peoplehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb23a6bb3f7e632000009knuckleheadFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:30:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb23a6bb3f7e632000009
I wonder is Jobs is thawing in his cryonics vessel?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb1b869bedd210700000cronnie raygunFri, 21 Sep 2012 14:28:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/505cb1b869bedd210700000c
Jay, Don't you ever tire of posting crappy stories?